Morphologic and facies trends through the fluvial–marine transition in tide-dominated depositional systems: A schematic framework for environmental and sequence-stratigraphic interpretation

Self-organization of tidal deltas

“…distributary ͉ tide ͉ tidal prism ͉ avulsion ͉ discharge O f the 3 main classes of deltas (river dominated, wave dominated, and tidal dominated), the morphology of tidaldominated deltas presents the most dendritic structure (1)(2)(3)(4). I hypothesize in this article that tidal delta evolution is driven by channel avulsion (defined herein as the abrupt change in the course of a channel caused by floods, storm surges, or variations in tidal regime) that creates new distributaries, and by the silting of old branches when the discharge is not large enough to transport its entire sediment load.…”

Compositional data analysis of Holocene sediments from the West Bengal Sundarbans, India: Geochemical proxies for grain-size variability in a delta environment

“…The non-stationary signals found in elemental log-ratio pairs may be attributed to tidal 661 processes in the manner described by Dalrymple and Choi (2007). However, what is The utility of these calibrated geochemical proxies from the Sundarbans is 678 illustrated in Fig.…”

“…Grain size variation delivered by rivers has also been found to become finer in the 608 seaward direction and this is more pronounced in an aggradational environment 609 (Dalrymple and Choi, 2007). However, given that this part of the Sundarbans is an 610 'abandoned' deltaic-estuarine site, it may be classed as being part of the 'middle estuary' 611 which occupies effectively the same environmental location within an estuary as active 612 delta-plain distributary channels within a delta (Dalrymple and Choi, 2007).…”

“…However, given that this part of the Sundarbans is an 610 'abandoned' deltaic-estuarine site, it may be classed as being part of the 'middle estuary' 611 which occupies effectively the same environmental location within an estuary as active 612 delta-plain distributary channels within a delta (Dalrymple and Choi, 2007). In terms of a 613 deltaic system such an abandoned set of distributary channels are thought of as estuarine 614 due to the fact that they do not carry as much river discharge and also experience 615 .…”

Stratigraphic architecture of back-filled incised-valley systems: Pennsylvanian–Permian lower Cutler beds, Utah, USA

“…This element represents the migration of subaqueous barforms in a shallowmarine or marginal marine setting (Dalrymple and Rhodes, 1995;Dalrymple and Choi, 2007). Variations in geometry between layered tabular sheets and laterally-and verticallystacked channelised elements arise as a function of their position relative to the margins of the incised valley systems (discussed below).…”